Posted on: 11:02 Wed, 25 Nov 2015



Ebonyi State Police Command
Tuesday paraded nine suspects in
connection with various crimes
ranging from armed robbery,
cultism, and unlawful possession of
firearms to vandalism.

Among those paraded include
members of a robbery gang that
operates on highways. They are;
Ndubuisi Iseh, 23; Uchenna Nweke,
24, and Sunday Elom, the driver.

The hoodlums had perfected plans to
rob in Lagos but were prevented by
the police who trailed them after
snatching their rifles which they
wanted to use for the operation.

Parading the suspects at Police
Headquarters, Abakaliki, the state
Commissioner of Police Peace Ibekwe
Abdallah told newsmen that the
hoodlums attacked a team of
policemen on stop and search duty
at Evangel Camp junction, Okpoto in
Ishielu Local Government Area of the
state.

She disclosed that the gang inflicted
bullet wounds and machete cuts on
the policemen during the attacked
and snatched three AK47 rifles with
20 rounds of live ammunition in
each of the rifles.